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Spotify and alcoholic beverage Smirnoff have teamed up to create the Smirnoff Equaliser. Given the large amounts of data Spotify have about their user’s listening behaviours, this is fun way to promote the equality for female music artists who are under represented in the time listened across the world. According to...

Spotify is given artists a huge boost in a new About page. This new tab will be available on the Artist page and allow you to get a much more detailed look at the artist’s background and following, amongst ranking as compared to others in the world. The new...

It’s often the job of a DJ to introduce new music to the world. In 2015, most of us don’t listen to radio, instead preferring streaming music services like Spotify. A key part of ensuring you discover new music you like, is having good techniques to uncover new artists...

Music service Deezer has become the first music streaming service to integrate with IFTTT (If This Then That). If you’re like me and love to automate your life, you’ll already be using the service extensively to take care of repetitive tasks and now music can be part of that...

Ex-Silverchair front man, now solo artist, Daniel Johns has partnered up with David Jones to create a neat bit of technology. Shot by sound is a part music video, part photo shoot and part technology innovation. By rigging up microphones to the band’s equipment and John’s microphone, they were...

Apple Music is now available. The streaming service starts with a 3 month free trial where thanks to Taylor Swift, Apple will pay artists everytime you play. You know Apple are serious about a new product or service when they takeover Apple.com with a promotion. If you want to...

One of TIDAL’s biggest selling points is high quality audio and it’s now available on SONOS. The streaming music is in lossless FLAC audio, which will go head to head to other HD music service Deezer on SONOS. For those who have golden ears and appreciate the subtleties in...

Taylor Swift wrote an open letter to Apple explaining that her popular 1989 album would never be on Apple Music because of unfair terms. The new service made a deal with labels that meant artists would give their music away for a 3-month trial period to draw music fans...

Premium audio system SONOS has already added support for TIDAL. If you were under a rock today, you missed the launch of yet another music streaming service. The biggest difference with TIDAL is the people who created it, artists, and plenty of them. Usher, Beyoncé, JAY Z, Kanye West,...

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